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Thursday, May 1, 2008

This article was forwarded to me today. It's a well-written must-read. This piece can also be found on TaylorSiluwe.com.

Different Standards for Black and White PreachersBy Cenk Uygur

Rudy Giuliani's priest has been accused in grand jury proceedings of molesting several children and covering up the molestation of others. Giuliani would not disavow him on the campaign trail and still works with him.Mitt Romney was part of a church that did not view black Americans as equals and actively discriminated against them. He stayed with that church all the way into his early thirties, until they were finally forced to change their policies to come into compliance with civil rights legislation. Romney never disavowed his church back then or now. He said he was proud of the faith of his fathers.

Reverend Rod Parsley believes America was founded to destroy Islam. Since this is such an outlandish claim, I have to add for the record, that he is not kidding. Reverend Parsley says Islam is an "anti-Christ religion" brought down from a "demon spirit." Of course, we are in a war against all Muslims, including presumably Muslim-Americans. Buts since Parsley believes this is a Christian nation and that it should be run as a theocracy, he is not very concerned what Muslim-Americans think. John McCain says Reverend Rod Parsley is his "spiritual guide."

5 comments:

Thank you for those examples! It is disappointing that Obama's team did not do enough digging and when confronted about his OWN pastor, he would have been able to go through every church that McCain and Clinton attended and what their preachers were teaching.

Instead, the Obama team decided to try to appease the white people. If Obama loses this race, black people will not be so kind to him in his SECOND bid for the White House. He needs to pay attention!

Hey Rev. Lisa,I agree. I don't know what's up with his campaign stuff. If I were on his stuff (I volunteer and do phone-bannking for his campaign), I'd answer every question regarding Rev. Wright and whatever else with rhetorical questions about his opponents.

Obama is being far too appeasing to White people with all of this denouncing. Then again, this is a Black man making a presidential bid and you know The Black Tax is in full effect.

Perhaps the scruitny on Reverend Wright will have a positive effect. For years people of his Ilk are telling black people that "the white man is out to get them" on a daily basis and "the struggle" is ongoing and will never end. Meanwhile Barak and his wife were doing quite well, in spite of the fact that the both of them came from meagar beginnings. Perhaps this sort of ignorance, that its impossible for blacks to succeed in America, will begin to die and perhaps preachers will return to preaching the word, instead of propaganda. I asked a man one day "You have bars on your windows. Who are you trying to keep from robbing you? The White Man?" I got no answer. "The Struggle" knows no race. "The struggle" is the struggle of the uneducated, uncouth and the culture that ecourages it. From the hood to the trailer park, from Atlanta to Appalachia it is no different. To summaraze: perhaps the disparity in coverage is racist. However, if it stops the foolishness that flys from his mouth and the mouths of other preachers of his ilk. Its worth it. Its 2008, not 1950. Oprah's a billionaire OK?

When did Rev. Wright ever say that Black progress was hopeless and unlikely? Members of his church were Obama and Oprah and I'm pretty sure that the rest of the Black congregants weren't piss poor. He influenced Obama to entitle his book "The Audacity of Hope" from his sermon so that hardly sounds like self-victimization. If Rev. Wright's involved in programs that aim to better the lives of underpriveleged Blacks and teach them self-determination despite the design of our system, then that doesn't sound like hopelessness.

The coverage is most definitely racist when White media outlets are just now discussing Rev. Hagee's disparaging remarks about Catholics, Jews, and gays. Like the article stated, if Rev. Wright were disparaging Muslims and gays rather than criticizing U.S. foreign policy, he wouldn't be an issue.